Checking Facebook on the Web or on your phone is so last week. Why not do it the retro way and sift through reams of printed sheets to read what your friends are up to? The Facebook Box, an invention of product designer Steve Murray, gives you a way to read and keep every status update and any of your friends posts: on paper.

The Facebook Box is essentially a printer that’s connected to your Facebook account, and every time a new post appears in your news feed, the tiny receipt printer in the device whirrs to life and prints it out on a tiny slip of paper. You can read it, toss it out, or file it in the space just to the right of the printer slot. When closed, the blue envelope-shaped box has the Facebook logo on the top and your name on the top, so everyone knows that your wall lives inside.

If you can’t tell, the Facebook Box is a bit tongue-in-cheek. The product page for it is rich with phrases like “social networking no longer needs to be restricted to the confines of a digital display.” Still, there may be a market for the Facebook Box, especially for those people who tend to print every e-mail they get and document they want to read.